Re: Saponified Stearin (from palm oil) --help please!

[Guest guest]

helo angie,

we use sterin in candles to harden the wax, I thk it must be doing

the same in ur recipe...

also too much of sterin gives a chalky finish in candles.

natasha

> I am trying to figure out what exactly this is. I have been using

an

> anti bacterial foam soap, and this is one of the listed

ingrediants.

> I would love to try and create t his on my own.

> I understand the basic soapmaking process, but have no idea how

this

> would petain to making a liquid foam type handsoap. As you can

> tell, I am pretty new to all of this. I would REALLY appreciate any

> insight on this. Thanks SOooo very much for your time!

> Angie

[Guest guest]

I don't know the answer here but I am wondering why you would add an

antibacterial agent (I am assuming that's what this is) to real soap

which is naturally antibacterial. I have had this argument with my

father who is a health inspector for OSHA and is obsessed with anti

bacterial products. This weekend I made them a hand soap that not only

contains real soap, but anti bacterial eo's. It is excellent. Here is

an article talking about a study done on the effectiveness of

antibacterial " soaps " compared to regular...

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1056419.htm

hope this helps a bit:)

Cheers!

Sunny Imhof

Lizardhead Natural Products

[Guest guest]

> I am trying to figure out what exactly this is. I have been using

an

> anti bacterial foam soap, and this is one of the listed

ingrediants.

> I would love to try and create t his on my own.

> I understand the basic soapmaking process, but have no idea how

this

> would petain to making a liquid foam type handsoap. As you can

> tell, I am pretty new to all of this. I would REALLY appreciate

any

> insight on this. Thanks SOooo very much for your time!

> Angie

I wonder if this is stearic acid which is widely used in making

cream soap, shaving cream, body scrubs, etc.

HTH

Akua

http://www.akuawood.co.uk

[Guest guest]

Just wanted to thank you all for trying to help me figure this out.

I believe it is basicly the same thing as liquid soap (homemade)

Angie

[Guest guest]

" " wrote:

I am trying to figure out what exactly this is. I have been using an

anti bacterial foam soap, and this is one of the listed ingrediants.

I would love to try and create t his on my own.

I understand the basic soapmaking process, but have no idea how this

would petain to making a liquid foam type handsoap.

Angie

First....

" Saponified " means the specific ingredient [ie..palm stearic acid]

was processed with lye, [either sodium hydroxide as in bar soap, or

potassium hydroxide as in liquid soap]. So the ingredient list on to

foam soap may read saponified olive oil, stearic acid, palm oil, etc.

which means all those ingredients were processed with the lye to form

soap!

Second, palm stearic acid is a natural ingredient used in soap making

mainly to make the soap more firm, and unnecessary in bar soap

formulations if palm oil is used since this also adds firmness.

With liquid soap, stearic acid is used to thicken the soap and used

right along with the oils/butters in the ingredients and processed

with potassium hydroxide to form soap.

Personally I would not use stearic acid when making FOAM liquid soap

since the soap paste must be diluted quite a bit in order to be very

thin for the foam bottle to work correctly.

If your interested in making liquid soap, email me privately for

information.

hth

Sherry

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